Burns and Allen Lambchops

Lampchops (1929) is a comedy Vitaphone short which is a filming of a vaudeville performance by George Burns and Gracie Allen of the comedy routine "Lambchops" written by Al Boasberg.
In 1999 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Lambchops was released on DVD in three disc deluxe edition of The Jazz Singer in October 2007."

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[Barry I. Grauman]

According to George, this was supposed to have been a Fred Allen short- but he couldn't make it, and he and Gracie were literally summoned at the last minute to the Brooklyn Vitaphone studio to film this. And because this was supposed to be someone's living room, George devised the idea of him and Gracie looking around the room at the start, "searching" for the audience until they see "us". Supposedly, George wore his hat because he hadn't had time to put his toupee on.

[Philo Drummond]

Thanks for that information!

[Brian Johnson]

Great!